Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 09:09:28 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote:

You could try running Procmon to see what it's trying to
access. I haven't yet tried running VS6 even on Win7.
As I understand it, one has to create a dummy msjava.dll,
but that's all I know.

For any performance problem I use Windows Resource Manager. Is Procmon
the same thing?

Steve

Process Monitor logs ETW events, including the I/O that all programs
are doing, as well as registry read/write. You can use it for debugging
the suspicious activities of various programs.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...nloads/procmon

It starts capturing as soon as you start it. Removing the
tick box in the File menu, stops capture. Using the Edit:Clear
clears the display, so you are ready to do another capture.

ProcMon also allows boot logging. You can have ProcMon running
just before shutdown time. Do a shutdown (ProcMon closes and
saves the current capture). When the machine reboots, a hidden
DLL like procmon23.dll captures startup ETW events, allowing
analysis. When you next start Procmon, it'll ask if you
want to "save boot trace?" or similar. When you say yes, you'll
have a 500MB file with interesting stuff to go through.

Most of the time, it's like searching for a needle in a haystack
in there, but occasionally you find something interesting.
The most baffling part, is all of the junk activity that
goes on in your OS that you don't know about. A lot of the
"noise" in there comes from that. Some OSes can be doing
1000-10000 registry accesses per second... when nothing
is going on. Some of that noise can be Windows Update
scans.

Paul